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Friday, October 13, 2006

Coins in jars?

You have a gallon container (cylindrical bucket) filled with quarters and an equivalent gallon container filled with dimes. Assuming that you tossed the coins randomly into the containers, which has more money?

Dump out those buckets and use some of the change to buy fifty feet of copper tubing, several gallons of resin epoxy, and several pounds of quartz crystal chips. I would then chop twist and dice the remaining coinage.Following a simple recipe found nearby http://educate-yourself.org/ct/goodbyects10jan02.shtml, I would use the one gallon buckets to resist chemtrail weaponry.

this feels like a skill testing question....shouldn't the one with quarters have close to precisely 2.5 times the value than the dimes? Assuming the value of each coin is even close to accurate...25 cents worth of nickel alloy should have 2.5 times the volume of 10 cents worth of nickel alloy.

Damn! Now I'm going to want to know the 'empirical' answer to this question!

Since I'm not going to fill two buckets & count them, I have to picture it. Considering the size of the coins & space left between them as they fill up, I see more space occupied by a quarter as opposed to three dimes, & more space left between coins by quarters.

I calculate the volume of $1.00 in dimes to be 3401.06 mm^3 and $1.00 in quarters to be 3233.08 mm^3. However, I would guess that because of the relative bulkiness of the quarters, their will be more wasted space in between the quarters than the dimes. So which bucket is worth more? No clue.